The El Paso Community College Foundation kicks-off a weeklong celebration of first-generation students and graduates the week of November 8, 2020. Thousands of current EPCC students, alumni, faculty, and staff were the first in their families to access higher education. EPCC has graduated more than 85,000 local students in its fifty-one year history. November 8, 2020, marks the 55th anniversary of the signing of the 1965 Higher Education Act , which helped millions of first-g